Matteo AndreolettiPadova coach, spoke at a press conference on the eve of the match against Lecco:
“We come to this match with two weeks of work, which is perhaps too much. At home, Lecco is a very high level opponent, but we are ready and well mentally. I saw Lecco live last Saturday and they didn’t have a great match, since the change of coach they haven’t had the spark that was expected. At home they do very well, they have a team of great individual qualities, great experience and great physical structure. The approach to the match will be important, it will be important to be able to direct it immediately. The crowd can be heard there a lot, it’s an English stadium, but many of our fans will also travel from Padua and I’m sure they will be heard. Crescenzi won’t be there, Spagnoli will test today and we’ll see if he goes on the bench or if we postpone it for a week, then obviously Valente won’t be there.
In Lecco I had been an assistant coach and a goalkeeper coach, but it wasn’t my role. The synthetic in Lecco also becomes heavy when it rains, which is truly absurd considering that it shouldn’t be like this. We have reached an important level of knowledge. Spaniards? He is a striker with unique characteristics, when the games end he helps a lot even with the double center forward. Spagnoli’s biggest problem is playing time, we will have to bring it. Liguori? It applies to Michael and it applies to everyone. At the same time, despite Valente’s injury we have an excellent alternative with Liguori. We also have Varas and Cretella, sorry for Nicola but we have the tools to make up for any absence”